Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Waiting Quotes

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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Dance like nobody's looking.

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

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